Motherhood In The Old South.
£15.00
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press.
Place
Baton Rouge and London
Date
1990
Synopsis
Pregnancy, childbirth, and infant rearing.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. ix + [v] + 237 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial unclipped dust wrapper. Minor wear to extremities and lower margin smudges below tables III-IV at end; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 7 tables. A well researched history of childbearing and rearing in the Old South of the USA, 1800-1860, based on diaries, personal letters, medical journals, physicians' reports and census data. By Sally Gregory McMillen (b.1944), Professor of History at Davidson College, North Carolina and writer on women's issues.
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